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Why Awdal youngsters are eager
to Illegally immigrate (tahriib)?
July,03,2008..Mohamed
Muhumed Ainan
 There
are many researches that have recently carried out
in order to figure out the main routes of illegal
migrations. These studies have ranked that Somalia
is among the highest countries that its people
illegally immigrate to wealth countries such as UK ,
USA and SCANDANEVIAN countries. In addition, many
studies implemented by UNITED NATION have reported
that 60% of these people lost their lives on the
deserts and oceans and these statistics have
additionally shown that 75% of those people are ages
between 15 and 35 years old. Illegal immigration
refers to immigration across national borders in a
way that violates the migration laws of the
destination countries. Under this definition,
illegal immigrant is a foreigner who either has
illegally crossed an international political border,
be it by land, water, or air, or a foreigner who has
entered a country legally but then overstays his/her
visa. There are many reasons that cause to immigrate
or to travel illegally. In my point of view, the
three main reasons that cause illegal migrations are
economic reasons, Discouragement of elders and
rulers of the country and as well as the poverty.
The first reason is that young generations of the
third world countries immigrate for economic
reasons. It is clear that unemployment rate is
dramatically very high in those regions and standard
of living is very low and some regions have reached
under the normal situation of economic these regions
include Somaliland. Somaliland economic has
desperately weakened year after year, month after
month and day after day and its regions have
suffered the problem of unemployment. For instance,
if you try to take real observation about this
issue, you will see that fresh graduates from the
universities of the country especially AMOUD
UNIVERSITY just wake up early in the morning and sit
restaurants beside the streets. On top of that,
AWDAL youngsters go to education institutes and most
of them finish their education successfully then
there is no plan for them. After graduating from
university they strive to find job and practice what
they have learnt but every thing goes wrong because
government nothing make plan for these new
generations. Therefore, Somaliland youngsters
immigrate illegally to wealth countries looking for
better life and an employment opportunities and it
is not to surprise that they risk their lives since
unemployment rate jeopardize their future career.
The second reason is that discouragement of elders
and rulers of the country. Saying discouragement of
elders sounds great but it is not outlandish and it
is true that elders and senior workers do not give
chance for their next generation. Instead of early
retirements, they prefer to stay longer their
positions and this reason resulted in loss of future
of the youngsters. Statistically, it has proven that
85% of workers both public and private institutions
are above in their late fifths age and they hang
about their positions more than fifteen years after
the collapse of the former regime of Somalia .
Moreover, these elders have practiced and adopted
that former regime’s system which is full of
corruption and mismanagement of the limited resource
of the region. Consequently, the economic of the
country is downward and getting worse. Therefore,
youngsters observe all these problems and they
cannot take action against these unpopular systems
and instead of taking any action, they prefer to
immigrate illegally. On the other hand, if these
young people formally form groups and strive to
start their own businesses, the system and
environment do not support to develop their talented
ideas and that is why they lost themselves on Libyan
oceans.
The third reason is that youngsters immigrate to
wipe out the serious poverty of the region. There is
an outsized poverty in the region which has forced
the youngsters to travel illegally and this problem
has led a great loss of young generations of the
region, which eventually brings a huge diversion and
lack of talented and skilled people of the province.
Besides that, poverty has created a great
displacement inside the region and this resulted in
those youngsters of the province become completely
disappointed and unbearable.
Furthermore, there is a study that have supported
and proved that there is unlimited poverty in the
region. This research carried out by a group of
AMOUD graduates in 2004 which has shown that 90% of
dwellers in the province get support and remittance
overseas and that means if the families do not
depend on someone overseas, they will starve and
cannot survive without that support, additionally,
these families cannot avoid to paid educational
expenses of their children and other needed costs.
Therefore, youngsters must try to immigrate
illegally and support their families if they survive
from the thirsty, risk of the desert and darkness of
the tides inside the oceans, which is likely seems
that most of them or illegal immigrants cannot,
because of that they do not know how large the risk
of the boats they are taking as well as unknowing
the long road they are going to take.
Some people believe that youngsters force their
parents to support and help them to migrate
illegally. These critics argue that there is enough
peace and education system and they are saying that
there is no reason they can loss their lives and
take risks to travel abroad countries. Furthermore,
the proponents’ main argument is that they believe
young people can create opportunities and they can
apply their knowledge on real life. Granted, it is
clear that there is good education and peace in the
region compared to other regions of Somalia , AWDAL
has good quality in terms of education.
Nevertheless, no one can deny that corruption has
weakened the economic development of the region as
well as mismanagement of its resource and this
problem has led that young people to be risk takers
when it comes to travel illegally. In addition, all
the studies carried out by both local and
international NGO’S have declared that there is a
huge unemployment rate in Somaliland and that is why
young generations immigrate illegally. Therefore, no
one can put the blame on the youngsters and it is
clear that those take the responsibility of the
youngsters those lost their lives on illegal
migrations.
In conclusion, in my view, elders, intellectuals and
senior educators of the region should take the
responsibility of those young people who lost their
lives on Libyan oceans and there must be solution
for this problem except just talking and sorrow what
happened, and also they must prevent not to occur
again. On top of that, solution must be based on the
needs of the youngsters and simply the leaders of
region must take action in order to reduce the
poverty and the unemployment rate of the province.
Before taking action, they must set a plan to
develop the standard of living in the region as well
as preparing its strategy to enhance those plans.
Also, leaders and intellectuals of the region must
focus on creating job opportunities and encouraging
both local and foreign investors by not restricting
them in terms rules and regulations.
Writer: Mohamed Muhumed Ainan
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